Older Tugs
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Fire Tugboat circa 1900 belching smoke and water in Portland, Oregon (unknown contributor) |
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The tug Wyoming of the Lehigh valley. (unknown contributor) |
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Interesting photo of the side paddlewheeler tug Skookum circa 1940. (unknown contributor) |
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One of the last steam-powered vessels to operate on the Chesapeake Bay, this tug is sunk in Curtis Creek near the Bay. (unknown contributor) |
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USS Active YT 14 at Mare Island in 1898 Later USS Lively YT-323 (unknown contributor) |
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Tug Advance YT 28 With more Advance Photos |
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USS Algonquin 1898-1946. Photo NY Navy Yard circa April 1898. Note 6mm Colt Machinegun and 13-star boat flag aft, and horse cart on pier. Renamed Accomac 15 June 1898, Nottoway in 1920, and YTL-18 during World War II. |
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Halftone photo, published in War in Cuba, 1898. Ships include (left to right): USS Algonquin 1898-1946 USS Leyden 1865-1903 USS Sioux 1898-1921 renamed Nyack 1918. Note sailors rowing a small boat in right foreground. (Contributed By Alfred Cellier) |
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USS Allegheny AT 19 (Date Unknown) (Contributed
by Bill Mozingo) |
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USS BRANT AT-132 Postal Cover. She began service as a MINESWEEPER No. 24/(AM 24) Reclassified AT-132 Reclassified ARS-32 (Circa May 20, 1935) (contributed by Craig Rothhammer) |
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Tug Chester (Circa 1944) (No other info Available) (Contributor Unknown) |
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USS Cherokee Armed Tug built in the late 1800's Sunk in 1918 in 90 feet of water during a storm. There were 10 survivors. The ship is considered a good dive site and contains many artifacts that can be photographed including the deck gun, boilers, etc. (Contributed By Bill Mozingo) |
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USS Choctaw 1898-1940 152-ton tug built Philadelphia as civilian tug CG Coyle. Purchased for Span-Amer War stationed Gulf of Mex. Renamed Wicomico Feb1918. Later resignated YT-26. Operated Norfolk until Feb 1940, when sunk in collision. Photo 1898, following conversion for U.S. Navy service. Note searchlight atop her pilothouse. |
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USS Fortune YT-11 Off San Diego, CA (Pre WW-I photo) (Photo from Naval Historical Center via Bill Mozinga) |
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USRC/USCGC Hudson 1893-1935 128-ton tug built Camden, NJ. Assigned NY Harbor. During Span-Amer War operated off Cuba, returning NY after war. Decommiss May 1935. Photo Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA, 21 April 1898. |
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USS Iroquois 1898-1928
At the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 24 August 1898. Note damage to
building in right background, caused by an earthquake in March 1898 |
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AT 37 USS IUKA (Circa Unknown) (Contributed by Rodger Dana) |
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USS Lykens AT-56 1899 - 1920. Decomm: 1922, Striken: 1933 (Date Unknown) (Contributed By Bill Mozingo) |
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USS Miraflores Circa 1910 |
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USS KEOSANQUA AT 36 (Later redisgnated ATO) Underway (Date Unknown) (Contributed By Craig Rothhammer) |
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John G. Olsen, a 61-ton steam harbor tug, was built in New Baltimore, New York, in 1916. She was acquired by the Navy in April 1918 and assigned to duty in the Fifth Naval District. During the remaining months of World War I, she served as a tug in the vicinity of Hampton Roads, Virginia, supporting the activities of the Naval Overseas Transportation Service. Later, she was stationed at Indian Head, Maryland. USS John G. Olsen was returned to her owners in August 1919. (Contributed by Bill Mozingo) |
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Tugboat Oneka
(built as Tugboat Counselor) With more Oneka Photos |
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USS Peoria 1898-1922 487-ton converted gunboat built as pilot boat Philadelphia. Navy purchase May 1898 for Span-Amer War. Became tug 1908 designated AT-48 1920 & YT-109 1921. Decommiss Nov 1921. Photo circa May 1898, possibly at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, following conversion for naval service |
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USS Potomac 785-ton built 1897 West Bay City, MI, as civil tug Wilmot. Navy purchased April 1898, served West Indies during Span-American War. After, active along east coast and Caribbean. Desig AT-50 1920, decomm June 1922. Note 6-pounder guns at her bow and stern. Photographed during War 1898. |
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USS Powhatan 1898-1928 194-ton tug built 1892 Baltimore as civil tug. Navy purchased April 1898 active Gulf coast Span-Amer War. After as yard tug NY Navy Yard. Renamed Cayuga 1917, YT 12 later, decomm April 1928. Photo circa 1898-99 |
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USS
Relief, Motor Patrol Boat (SP-2170)
A steel wrecking tug built
during 1907 by Harlan & Hollingsworth, was acquired 8 August 1918
for U.S. Navy service from the Merritt & Chapman Derrick and Wrecking
Co. of New York; and commissioned 19 August 1918.
Relief operated as a salvage and wrecking tug in the New York area while assigned to the 3d Naval District into 1919. She was sold to her former owner 14 May 1919, and remained in commercial service between the two world wars. Returned to Navy service during World War II, Relief was operated by her owner under direction of the Bureau of Ships from 14 January 1942. Relief subsequently returned to mercantile service and was placed out of service in 1955. Displacement, 1,386; Length, 200'; Beam, 30'3"; Draft, 15'; Depth of hold, 20'7"; Speed, 14. 5 knots; Complement, 58 (Photo Date Unknown) (Contributed by Bill Mozingo) |
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USS Salvor Salvage barge in Boston during WW-1 Circa 1918 (From Nafts Collection) |
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Sasco YT 31 in port during the 1920's (Photo from Naval Historical Center via Bill Mozingo) |
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USS Seminole 1898-1900 122-ton tug built 1879 at Camden, NJ as civil tug. Navy purchased June 1898 for Boston Navy Yard during and after Span-Amer War. Seminole trans to the War Dept March 1900. Photo at Boston Navy Yard 1898. |
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USS Sunnadin AT 28 (Date Unknown) (Contributed by Bill Mozingo) |
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USS Tacoma
Photographed in 1898, probably off the Pensacola Navy Yard, Florida. Note 6-pounder Driggs-Schroeder gun at her bow. This tug was renamed Sebago in 1900. |
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USS Umpqua, AT 25 Ship's Postal Cover. Postmarked October 27, 1936. (Contributed By Bill Mozingo) |
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Tugboat Vigilant YT 26 With more Vigilant Photos |
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Tugboat Favorite, working to upright the steamboat Eastland on The Chicago River in Illinois. 800 were killed in this circa 1915 disaster. |
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Tugboat Hugh Rose tied up at the wharf on the waterfront of Bucksport Maine. Unknown date and contributor |
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Unknown tug having some flooding difficulties pierside. |
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The turn of the century Pacific Northwest wooden tugboat, Traveler. They were used to help schooners loaded with timber over the bar. The crew of the timber schooner depicted in the background have taken advantage of a bright and windy day to dry her canvas sails as prolonged exposure to damp could cause them to rot. |
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Tug "GB Sandt" a turn of the century wooden tug. (No other info available) (Contributor Unknown) |
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Unknown tug assisting USS Georgia BB-15. Date Unknown (Contributed by Bill Mozingo) |
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Unknown Tug leaving Vallejo, California and headed for Mare Island (Circa 1910) (Contributed by Bill Mozingo) |
